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Today’s weekly news digest covers the stories about various mistakes in coding, and how they can be used for different purposes, including earning money.

Our today’s weekly news digest covers three stories about the mistakes coders make when programming robots, the way other people exploit those design flaws, and then the reckoning.

Facial recognition algorithms can track your movements with amazing accuracy. But if you know how they work you can trick them.

Kaspersky Lab joined hands with the Dutch police to arrest the criminals behind the CoinVault dangerous ransomware.

Russian chess player Mikhail Antipov sponsored by Kaspersky Lab has won the World Junior Championship.

In the new installment of our explosive hit series “Infosec news” you’ll find: the breach of Bugzilla, Carbanak is coming back and Turla uses Level-God hard to track techniques to hide servers.

Kaspersky Lab’s researchers have found that Russian-speaking Turla APT group is exploiting satellites to mask its operation ant to hide command-and-control servers

The new trend on IFA 2015 is all about integrity and security. Meet Kaspersky Lab’s observations from the trade show.

Information security digest: the greatest iOS theft, farewell to RC4 cipher, multiple vulnerabilities in routers

Headlines raise alarm: the greatest hack in history finally reached iOS. Is that really so and who are the potential victims?

Infosec digest: exploit kit Neutrino in Wordpress, yet another GitHub DDoS, Wyndham responsible for breach, while Target is not

“The Girl in the Spider’s Web”, the 4th book of Millenium series released today. Our security expert David Jacoby tells how he consulted the author of the book on what exactly hacking is.

One can find a number of reasons why this very bug cannot be patched right now, or this quarter, or, like, ever. Yet, the problem has to be solved.

Just think of the sticky fingers of banks, marketers and insurers that hunt for your personal data with revolting impudence and store them unsecured. So, what’s the fuss about?

Once more into a breach: 9.7 gigabytes of stolen data with users’ emails, credit card transactions and profiles leaked into the darknet.

Since there’s nothing unhackable in this world, why should chemical plants should be the exception?

In this post there are two seemingly unrelated pieces of news which nevertheless have one thing in common: not that somewhere someone is vulnerable, but that vulnerability sometimes arises from reluctance to take available security measures.

Merely 23 years ago Microsoft released Windows 3.1 operating system, Apple showed its first iPhone PDA, and Linus Torvalds released Linux under GNU license. Eugene Kaspersky published the book with

Predictability of human beings can barely be overestimated when it comes to passwords. But what about lock screen patterns, are we predictable as well when we’re creating them?

Researchers compete at finding security holes in infotainment systems of connected cars and breaking in. The new case proves that Tesla does care a lot about security at wheel.

Security researcher Chris Rock discovered, that it’s very easy to kill a human. All you need is just a computer with Internet access, some knowledge and common sense.